This reminds me: the Allegro library has a way to compile bitmaps into series of mov instructions to make blitting faster. This was somehow the fastest method o

This reminds me: the Allegro library has a way to compile bitmaps into series of mov instructions to make blitting faster. This was somehow the fastest method on early x86 processors. Loops were expensive back then. See https://liballeg.org/stabledocs/en/alleg016.html https://liballeg.org/stabledocs/en/alleg016.html